HallZOOween – October 6-7, 13-14, 20-21, & 27-28
Visit the Always Hairy and Never Scary at the Cincinnati Zoo! Trick-or-treating has never been so wild! Don’t miss HallZOOween, presented by Frisch’s Big Boy, October 6-7, 13-14, 20-21, and 27-28, from Noon – 5 p.m. at the Cincinnati Zoo & BOO-tanical Garden. Children (12 and under) can fill up their bag as they trick-or-treat through the Zoo. Help the Zoo Go Green and bring your own goodie bag. Along the way, you may encounter Pumpkin Pandemonium – the Zoo’s animal version of trick-or-treating. Back by popular demand, your little monsters can get their fingers painted or get a cool [...]
Help Save Gorillas and Win $5,000
Children across the Country Answer the Call CINCINNATI, OH – The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s Project Saving Species and The Gorilla Glue Company have teamed up for the second year in a row to promote a national competition called the Go Bananas! Challenge which kicks off September 1, 2012! The competition challenges school and community youth groups across the country to Answer the Call, and create campaigns to collect and recycle cell phones to help save gorillas. Cell phones contain an ore called coltan. One of the only places in the world where this ore can be found is [...]
The World’s Wildest Radio Show Celebrates 25 Years
The 90-Second Naturalist Thane Maynard Shares Bite-Sized Portions of the Big Picture CINCINNATI, OH (August 27, 2012) – If you give him a minute, he’ll give you 90 seconds. These are the words that the host of The 90-Second Naturalist Thane Maynard has lived by for the last 25 years. Maynard’s popular nationally syndicated radio series, dubbed the “World’s Wildest Radio Show,” shares bite-sized portions of the big picture of the natural world. The 90-Second Naturalist first aired August 27, 1987 and has recorded more than 6,500 broadcasts to date on stations across North America. As a result of the [...]
Half Priced Admission & Parking 8/24 – 8/26
Visitor Appreciation Days at the Cincinnati Zoo The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden wants to express gratitude to their visitors! As a “Thank You” to Hamilton County for their continued support, Zoo visitors of all ages can enjoy half price admission and parking to the world famous Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden during Visitor Appreciation Days, August 24, 25 & 26. The Zoo will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Visitors will be able to come face-to-face with big cats at the Zoo’s all-new Cat Canyon, feed giraffes at Giraffe Ridge, see Sarah, the world’s fastest land mammal, [...]
Fennec Fox Kits Now On Display at the Cincinnati Zoo!
For the first time since 1994, the Cincinnati Zoo is proud to announce the birth of three Fennec fox kits. The kits, one male and two females, were born at the Zoo on July 16 and are now on display in the Night Hunters exhibit. Born to father, “Stomp” and mother, “Sage,” the kits are being raised by both parents. Fennec fox males help in raising the kits, providing food for mom when the kits are young and then providing food for the kits as they grow. The fennec fox is relatively uncommon in U.S. zoos, currently only housed in [...]
Take Green Actions for the Greenest Zoo
The Zoo Gets $$ When You Turn Off a Light! The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden has teamed up with myActions.org The Social Network For The Planet to create an online and mobile “green action” campaign to raise money for the Zoo. Every “green” action you share on myActions.org now through August 31, 2012, earns the Cincinnati Zoo 25 cents. When you turn off a light, carpool, unplug an appliance or do any energy-saving action, go to myActions.org and record your actions. It’s easy and the Zoo benefits! With EVERY action you share, you can: Raise money and awareness for your [...]
Cincinnati Zoo Cheetah Sets New World Speed Record
Record Breaking Run Came During National Geographic Magazine Shoot CINCINNATI, OH (August 2, 2012) – “Sarah,” the Cincinnati Zoo’s 11-year-old cheetah, sets new world speed record! She first earned the title of world’s fastest of all land mammals in 2009 when she covered 100 meters in 6.13 seconds, breaking the previous mark of 6.19 seconds set by a male South African cheetah named Nyana in 2001. This year, Sarah shattered all 100-meter times when she posted 5.95 seconds. By comparison, Sarah’s 100-meter run was nearly four seconds faster than the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt of Jamaica, whose fastest time [...]
Cincinnati ZOOlympics is ON
See Our Animal Olympians July 27 – August 12 Cheetah sprints, tortoise and chicken races, pig mini hurdles, lemur gymnastics, serval high jump, sea lion volleyball and elephant weightlifting will become featured attractions over the next 16 days at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden to celebrate the 2012 Summer Games in London. The event officially named, ZOOlympics, will highlight a variety of the Zoo’s animal Olympians in a number of “Olympic-Style” animal encounters July 27 through August 12. Daily, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Zoo visitors can find animal encounters throughout the park themed to Olympic events that [...]
Baby Cheetah Spotted in the Cincinnati Zoo Nursery
A three-week-old, female African cheetah cub, is now on exhibit in the Cincinnati Zoo’s Nursery. She was born at the Zoo’s regional cheetah breeding facility in Clermont County on June 22, but she had to be moved to the Zoo’s Nursery after her mother, Lucy, (this is her first litter) could not provide adequate care. In an effort to get the cub back up to speed, Zoo Nursery keepers are bottle feeding the cub six times a day, every 2.5 hours. Cheetahs, like other predators, need large tracks of land to survive, where they can find enough prey to hunt. [...]
Zoo Offers Discounts for World Choir Games Attendees & Participants
The Cincinnati Zoo is participating in Cincinnati USA’s Go.Show.Save. program, offering $2 off adult and $1 off child Zoo admission for World Choir Games attendees & participants. Show your World Choir Games event ticket, wristband or credential to receive your discount. For more information, visit CincinnatiUSA.com/GoShowSave Discounts valid July 4 – July 14.
